'56 The of the Inexpressible that exists necessarily. Atheism—{God's existence is logically possible and in Fact false) In the empirical atheism, Hartshorne pointed out that GocPs Is logically possible, but in fact false. A state of Is said to be logically possible whenever the proposition this state of affairs exists is not self-contradictory, and impossible when the proposition is self-contradictory. The of God is not a self-contradictory proposition. It is logically Impossible for there to be a square circle but not a non-existent God. Secondly, when the term 'God* is meaning- ful and the existence of God is conceivable then it is logically God exists. Thirdly when a state of afikirs is really logically impossible, it is not imaginable by anybody, no one am imagine a tower that is both 100 and 150 feet high, or a circle that is square. If someone says tie can form the image of a square circle, he is probably forming the image of a square, then of a circle, in rapid succession. But lie can hardly imagine a figure that is both circular and not circular. Here the existence of God is imaginable by almost all human beings except the agEoistic. Thus God's existence is logically possible. Lastly what is logically impossible could not be the case in any universe, what is only empirically impossible might be the case in some universe.48 Tims the existence of God is the case in this universe so it is logically possible, but may not be possible empirically. When we speak of the rationality of religious belief we may have in one or other (or both) of two alleged characteristics of religious belief, its internal logical coherence and its correspon- or its grasp of independent reality.19 Prof. R.B. Braithwaite has discussed the meaning of the statement ŁGod exists' in Ms EddingtoB Memorial Lecture, An of the Nature of Religiom jBeitef and pointed 3S. Hospers, J.t An Introduction to Philosophical Amlysls, pp. 70, 71, 72. 3*. Robinson, N.GJHL, The Logic of religious Language*, Talk of Godt p. &,